Exploration Logs

• A better way to handle worldbuilding in games is to make the player care about the setting — treat the world not just as a backdrop but as a world that the player inhabits and interacts with. Make players care about the world rather than giving them all the answers.

• In terms of game balance, sometimes it is in our interest as designers to favor the less skilled player. This can make the experience as a whole more fun and engaging

• Introversion Games - Subversion

• Coral Toxins can melt your eyeballs

Topic Queue §

• Screaming Insects Algorithm
• Look more into Sparse Autoencoder
• Proportional Navigation

File §

• Demo and Writeup for the AI of a Tactical Top Down Shooter
• Final Fantasy VII - Game AI Writeup
• Predictive Aiming

Paper Queue §

• ¹ provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the use of Centralized Critics in CTDE.

• ² introduces a new mutual information framework for MARL. This leads to the development of an algorithm called Variational Maximum Mutual Information, Multi-Agent Actor Critic which allows agents to coordinate simultaneous actions without latency.

• Branching Reinforcement Learning by Du, and Chen (Jun 15, 2022)
• Vinyals et al. (2019) Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning
  • Linked in Self Play
• Wu et al. (2017) Scalable trust-region method for deep reinforcement learning using Kronecker-factored approximation
  • Linked in Trust Region Policies
• Ecoclimates — Climate-Response Modeling of Vegetation by Palubicki et al. (2022)
• Ma et al. (2024) Foundation Methods for Music — A survey

Front Logs §

• Exploring Physical Geography by Reynolds - start at Weather Systems
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Köppen_climate_classification

Backlogs §

• Note, some entries in Trivia are also interesting.

• Fuzzy Computation and Fuzzy Logic

• Numerical Methods

  • ODEs
  • PDEs

• Theory of Computation

• Rigid Body Simulation - Nonpenetration constraints

• Japanese Mythology

• Algebraic Graph Theory

• Graph Neural Network - GNNs

• Combinatorial Optimization

• Ballistics

• Graph Theoretic Approaches for Swarms - Resume Ch. 4

• Code Complete by McConnell - Resume Ch. 10

• Philosophy - read through A New History of Western Philosophy By Anthony Kenny

• Factory Physics - Workforce Planning.

• Virtues and their Vices by Kevin and Craig -Cardinal Virtues, Intellectual Virtues, Theological Virtues

• Linear and Nonlinear Programming by Luenberger and Ye - Resume Ch. 5

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Edwards - Resume Ch. 8

• Ordinary Differential Equations by Arnold - Ch. 6 (but restart all of Part 1) with better math background

• HEMA

• Extreme Performance Artists. Prompted by this

• Dramaturgy

• Von Neumann Morgenstern Utility Theorem

• Petri Nets

• Hopfield Networks

• General Method of Moments / Simulated Method of Moments

• AlphaFold

• Socionics

• Chess Openings

• Sound Design

• Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma

• Dreams are (theorized) as ways humans prevent overfitting

• Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies and similar algorithms

• Compositional Pattern Producing Methods

• Lanczos Algorithm (cited in Lanczos Networks)

• Algorithmic Information Theory

• Some interesting things to explore further - PSLQ, Sinkhorn Limits, Kruithoff Limits

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_proportional_fitting

• Combinatorial Maps

• Surface Nets

• Halton Sequences

Footnotes §

1. Lyu et al. (2023) On Centralized Critics in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning ↩

2. Kim, Jung, Cho, Sung (2020) A Maximum Mutual Information Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning ↩